It's not your typical library, memorial, or book store.

Where a staggering 747 ships were constructed during World War II.

Amazing meticulous gardens of personal wood carvings, Hydrangea, Canna, and many other flowers.

Collective dedicated to restoring steam engines.

Radioactivity still cause for concern at this urban explorer's paradise.

Fonts are born and bred here at the oldest letterpress type foundry in the United States.

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.

This Oakland fairytale kingdom, fiercely devoted to childlike whimsy, was an early inspiration for Disneyland.

NASA's leading space science lab started by a co-founder with deep ties to the occult.

A walk down memory lane in the heart of one of San Francisco's most notorious neighborhoods.

The memorial to the victims of the Jonestown Massacre carries the names of 918 lost, including one name people wish wasn't there.

A creepy steel gremlin has protected the Bay Bridge since 1989.

A temple devoted to inner esoteric mysteries located in a California commercial strip.

Art from the latest counter-culture; kids who dye their hair blue and believe the future will be a post-apocalyptic water world.

Adolph Sutro's little-known, geographically inaccurate, deprecated monument.

The only museum of sake in the United States is nestled in an unlikely California college town.

Another of California's unused Cold War missile defense complexes has become a graffiti gallery.

A library and museum dedicated to typography.

Law-protected wreckage serves as a peculiar memorial for an almost forgotten World War II tragedy.

An amazing collection of fantastic reptiles, amphibians, spiders, and insects.

A giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.

No matter what it might seem like on film, most scenes filmed on a plane are filmed at this LA studio.

9,000 square feet of vintage and modern mechanical toys, dioramas & sideshow curiosities.

The biggest pinball arcade in the world has over 600 pinball machines, and 300 arcade machines.